ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two specific political debates in contemporary Nepal the first congealing around the word third gender and the second around equally stigmatised word dalal or pimp to examine how gender, especially masculinities are performed in political domain of Nepal. It also discusses various examples from Nepali blogosphere and other Internet social sites such as Facebook to examine how discourse of Nepali nationalism is traced by masculine anxiety within frame of which foreign gods and dalals are seen as conspiring to rape mother Nepal. The teshro lingi debate not only reproduced social stigmas concerning third gender subjects, but also stigmatised both women as well as those heterosexual men who tend to practice softer, non-aggressive versions of masculinity. Maoist charge that United Marxist Leninist (UML) is a third gender party and was linked with the perception that UML is 'like a woman' because it has surrendered to foreign powers just like a woman surrenders to the advances of a man.
